A tool to detect crontab errors
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Crontab linter
chkcrontab is a script to check crontab files like those in /etc/cron.d and /etc/crontab. It tries to catch glaring errors and warn on suspect lines in a crontab file. Some valid lines will generate warnings. Certain silly yet valid crontab lines will generate errors as well.
Run this by doing:
chkcrontab crontab_file
Errors will cause a non-zero exit code. Warnings alone will not.
To see sample output for a bad crontab, run the following:
./chkcrontab ./tests/test_crontab
See the ./tests/test_crontab.disable crontab for how to disable warnings and errors.
Contributions
Contributions are welcome! Please add unit tests for new features or bug fixes. To run all the unit tests run ./setup test.
Unit tests are run on Travis for all supported python versions.
The main site for this is on code.google.com with a backup site at github. Use whichever is convenient, the maintainer will push accepted patches to both.
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